A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...] — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist. — Melanie Fiona Copy Share Image
One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its… — Questlove Copy Share Image
“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In '68 I was 13 years old, so I was a child, but I felt a lot of excitement in listening to… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
I always encourage my young clients just starting to create a home, to buy at least one piece of investment furniture, or… — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
“It is in the ardent revolutionist to whom the joys of art, of science, even of family life, seem bitter, so long… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small… — Louise Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Compared with that of a great artist, the friendliness of a great nobleman, however charming it may be, seems like play-acting, like… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There's so much in this world that I want to do that I don't want to pigeonhole myself into one thing. I… — Darby Allin Copy Share Image
Girls are breaking barriers and boundaries every day in everything from sports and science to business and the creative arts. — Hilary Knight Copy Share Image
The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have… — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
“Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on… — Imogen Binnie Copy Share Image
Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day. — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art… — Paul Scheer Copy Share Image
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“The best moments of life are those when we contemplate beauty in the purely artistic spirit — objectively.” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the… — Winslow Homer Copy Share Image
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is,… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
'Be passionate about your work and your life' was instilled in me by my mother Dada, who was a potter. She also… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
“Art with a big A makes professionals uneasy. All art is one, and there is no difference in the mystery of the… — Michael Powell Copy Share Image
“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school. — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
“Every artist is born in a place, within a family, and though she may leave those sources far behind, they remain within… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
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